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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A children's rights group has called for Indian police to arrest the parents of a 13-year-old girl from the minority Jain community who died after observing a religious fast for 68 days.read more

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have arrested three suspected members of an Indian wing of al Qaeda, an officer said on Thursday, describing the detentions as the first successful raid on the militant group since it was set up l...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The beating and subsequent death in New Delhi of a university student from India's remote northeast has sparked a furious outcry against racism and criticism of police in the Indian capital.

The 13-year-old girl in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad was unusually devout, her relatives said. Even in her younger years, Aradhana Samdhariya was known to undertake strict fasts from time to time to embrace her Jain fait...

Nearly 2,500 members of the Jain religious community rallied on Monday in the northern Indian city of Kanpur to silently protest a recent ban on its practice of Santhara — a ritual fasting to death. Protests also took place inother ...